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Plant species expressing the bacterial mercuric reductase gene, merA, convert ionic mercury, Hg(II), from growth substrates to the less toxic metallic mercury, Hg(0). This activity confers mercury resistance to plants and removes mercury from the plant and substrates through volatilization. Our goal is to develop plants that intercept and remove Hg(II) from polluted aquatic systems before it can undergo bacterially mediated methylation to the neurotoxic methylmercury. Therefore, the merA gene under the control of a monocot promoter was introduced into Oryza sativa L. (rice) by particle gun bombardment. This is the first monocot and first wetland-adapted species to express the gene. The merA-expressing rice germinated and grew on semisolid growth medium spiked with sufficient Hg(II) to kill the nonengineered (wild-type) controls. 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